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Policy Buzz: Senate Hearing Follows Tornado Outbreak
by Caitlin Buzzas, AMS Policy Program On May 3, Dr. William Hooke, Director of the AMS Policy Program, testified before...
Struggling to Categorize an Epic Tornado Outbreak
The numbers practically defy comprehension: 327 people killed in a single day; nearly that many reports of tornadoes that fateful...
Clearing Up Aviation Ice Forecasting
NCAR has developed a new forecasting system for aircraft icing that delivers 12-hour forecasts updated hourly for air space over...
Arctic Ozone Layer Looking Thinner
The WMO announced that observations taken from the ground, weather balloons, and satellites indicate that the stratospheric ozone layer over...
Did Monday's Storm Set a Reporting Record?
A storm system that stretched from the Mississippi River to the mid-Atlantic states on Monday brought more than 1,300 reports...
New Tools for Predicting Tsunamis
The SWASH (Simulating Waves until at Shore) model sounds like something that would have been useful in predicting the tsunami...
The Evolution of Melting Ice
Off the coast of Antarctica, beyond the McMurdo Station research center at the southwestern tip of Ross Island, lies Hut...
Lessons of Sendai: The Need for Community Resilience
by William Hooke, AMS Policy Program Director, adapted from two posts (here and there) for the AMS Project, Living on...
The Atmospheric Factor in Nuclear Disaster
The tense nuclear power plant situation in Japan after the recent earthquake has raised questions not only about safety for...
Hot Off the Presses
Today marks the release of a new AMS publication, Economic and Societal Impacts of Tornadoes. The book examines data on...
